Love Fades With Bygone Days Chapter 16
I asked again, my voice steady.
“Would you?”
He opened his mouth.
But in the end, no answer came.
I didn’t need to hear it.
Even in his silence, I knew the truth.
I smiled, my tone calm and even.
“I’m not trying to rehash the past.”
“I just want you to understand that the problem was always you. It wasn’t about Alessia, and it wasn’t about Leo.”
“You never put me first.”
“When you were leaving for London, I was the last to know.”
“When I was struggling with depression, you couldn’t even be bothered to answer a text.”
“You thought sending money every month was enough. But money was never what I wanted.”
I paused, taking a breath.
“I just wanted you to look back at me.”
“Just once would have been enough.”
“Just once, so I would know you still remembered I existed.”
By the end, my voice had grown a little hoarse.
But I didn’t cry.
I simply picked up my glass, took a sip of water, then stood and went to the counter to pay the bill.
When we stepped out of the restaurant, the night air was cold.
Tomas instinctively started to take off his coat to drape it over my shoulders.
But halfway through the motion, his hand froze.
Because I had already taken a small, natural step back.
In that instant, he understood everything.
I had learned to keep my distance.
